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My friends, weather has been so terrible and unforgiving, so truly Romanian winter - not white but endlessly grey, dark, cold, dull, hostile, lifeless, without the white cover of Russian winters but at the same time not mild like Mediterranean winters - that photography outside is almost pointless unless you go to the mountains where there is some snow.
But I miss taking some shots especially now that I bought a new phone (and have nothing to photograph with it!) so I decided to take some indoors.
66761 Wensleydale Railway Association merrily clags away at the head of 6X44 Bescot Up Engineers to Toton conveying a rake of empty point carriers. Seen passing the former BR wagon shops now Nemsis Rail at Burton on Trent with its eclectic collection of former BR vehicles in varying states.
M. Huaihai Rd. & N. Xiangyang Rd., Shanghai
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/
To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
All members of the public are obliged to go through several rounds of pointless PCR testing, thus increasing the chances of cross-infection. "I don't know if the virus was controlled or not, but the public was definitely controlled", some quipped.
70816 awaits the aspect in order to cross Eastleigh east junction and propel back into the yard working the diverted 6X26 Oxford Hinksey to Eastleigh East yard engineers, routed via Andover and Laverstock junctions due to engineering work in the Winchester area. A quick sprint down the road from the previous image allowed both locations to be captured on foot.
Unusual to see the tilting point carriers without the boom used to lift off the points at the work sites.
Wagons were
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Saturday 19 November 2022
Let's face it, it's a fine line between deeply felt personal expression and pointless clutter.
Sold.
July2025. Abandoned storefront on The Square in Dewitt, Arkansas, USA. IlfordFP4push400.FujicaST801.FujinonEBC-28mm-M42.YellowFilter.DiafineDevoloper5+5.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
...That pointless stroll we've been taking with my brother just after i got off the bus started to become very meaningful to me when i saw this statue of Don Quijote. As a fresh graduate who feels like his whole ideals about life had collapsed, who lost all his hopes about the future and who has just been discouraged and disappointed by women, i found all the inspiration i need in this man on his horse.
He was a lunetic dreamer. Yet he never gave up on his dreams and always stood up against whatever stands in his way. Even though attacking a windmill was seen a pointless act by others, he chose to attack it any way. Because he wasn't interested in the thing or person he challenged; his whole interest was about challenge itself.
Then i took this beautiful silhouette to remind me this every time i look at it:
"Just because your dreams have never become reality, it doesn't mean that there is no point in dreaming. To make your life more endurable,
Struggle against reality; Enjoy your dreams."
Şelale (Waterfall) Park, Eskişehir - Turkey
To further elaborate on my pondering of how the Music City Star makes any money, here is an image of the exact same train. Despite heavy rain, being the middle of rush hour, and two crashes on I-40, I still managed to beat the train to their eastern terminus of Lebanon by 20 minutes.
Also of interest is the hopper line to the left of the train. The Star is the only commuter railroad I can think of that runs exclusively on shortline trackage. Pretty wild!
Here's train 157 once again, slowing for the station stop at Lebanon. Observed in the fashion of some Brian Rhoads type shit!
That about describes my feelings about the current rail scene in Atlanta, as well as the logo on Amtraks heritage 1 unit seen leading Amtrak 19 through CP Taylor in Temple, GA.
It's pointless to think that when there are several lively and sociable creatures living at home besides myself, I could do my hobbies in peace. :) I was editing the pictures, and my little friends thought that they should get some treats. So I cooked them corn, and here Pilvi and Pyry are tasting it, Sumu pops in at the end. Patrik's "ghost" eventually covers the entire screen :D
Macro Mondays - May 26, 2014 - Wise Old Sayings
"The Pencil of God Has No Eraser"
Weekly ABC Challenge - Week 21 - U is for Useless
Project 365 in 2014 - May 24, 2014 - 144/365
This was an early experiment with a macro lens on my Pentax MX. Taken on slide film and subsequently scanned I have hopefully brought it back to life.
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This model release photo is pretty useless because the models are masked beyond recognition. Besides, this is the only photo of them I've published!
Taken at Burning Man 2016.
#419 in Explore on Dec 7, 2017.
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291/365: 2015
The Weekly Alphabet Challenge - P for pointless
# 18 For October: A month in 31 pictures
I hadn't intended to triple up on challenges today but it's been a very sad day and I just couldn't muster up the energy or inspiration for more photos.
Some of you will remember the photos and story of Mr Levi, the stray cat that I was fostering (photo in comments). Well, he and Podge, our 18 year old cat, just couldn't get along so my eldest son and his girlfriend adopted Levi. He was with them for two weeks and he had settled really well in his new home. They adored him and he them. Unfortunately this morning he suddenly became very unwell so they took him to the emergency vet. To cut a long story short he was a very sick boy and the kindest thing was to let him go. We are all devastated, he was such a lovely cat who after years of living as a stray, had finally found a loving home.
Pointlessly preserved ugly doric face of 1821 Unitarian Chapel now made uglier by turning it into the entrance to a block of flats.